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AP News: The State Department has greenlighted an emergency $138 million in foreign military sales for Ukraine to provide critical repairs and spare parts for Kyiv’s Hawk missile systems.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces did not manage to gain a foothold in the front-line village of Robotyne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine's Southern Forces said on April 10, denying earlier claims by a regional official.
Bloomberg: NATO has “no time” to lose as Europe’s military industry ramps up production to keep pace with Russia’s war economy, Lithuania’s defense chief said (archive).
ISW: Russia is likely trying to expand efforts to disseminate pro-Kremlin and Kremlin-approved ideology to create a generation of Russians pliant to the Kremlin’s goals, especially as Russia sets domestic information conditions for a long war effort in Ukraine and increasingly postures against the West.
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The Kyiv Independent: Russian troops used first-person view drones to "simulate an attack from Ukraine" on the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Andrii Yusov, a spokesman for Ukraine's military intelligence agency, said on April 9.
The Moscow Times: Nearly one month after Putin was re-elected to a fifth term, the European Parliament remains unable to agree on a resolution to reject the election’s legitimacy.
Bloomberg: The Pentagon revealed that its contract to deploy Elon Musk’s Starlink terminals in Ukraine is worth $23 million, finally putting a dollar figure on a deal that has embroiled one of the world’s richest men in the Russia conflict — sometimes to his own chagrin (archive).
AP News: Serbia is close to signing a deal on the purchase of 12 French Rafale multi-purpose fighter jets, the Serbian president announced Tuesday, in what would mark a shift from its traditional military supplier Russia.
The Kyiv Independent: More than two-thirds of the Russian tanks that Ukraine’s military has destroyed in recent months have been taken out using first-person-view drones, a NATO official told Foreign Policy, possibly indicating an increased reliance on unmanned aircraft amidst Ukraine's critical ammunition shortages.
CNN: The Biden administration is preparing to take the unusual step of issuing an order that would prevent US companies and citizens from using software made by a major Russian cybersecurity firm because of national security concerns.
Reuters: United Nations monitors have recorded a sharp increase in civilian casualties in Ukraine last month as Russian forces have stepped up attacks, the U.N. Human Rights Office said on Tuesday. The toll included at least 57 children killed or injured in March, double the number from February, it said.
Reuters: The Russian parliament on Tuesday voted to give the country's largest liquefied natural gas producer Novatek the right to establish its own security guard to protect its facilities.
Reuters: Russia and Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after swiftly melting snow swelled mighty rivers beyond bursting point in the worst flooding in the area for at least 70 years.
Meduza: The Russian authorities have accused Burisma Holdings and other unnamed firms of financing terrorist attacks in Russia and abroad. The Ukrainian gas company was at the center of the Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory promoted by Donald Trump in 2020.
POLITICO: Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov spent his mandate trying to boot out the Russians, and has no doubt that Moscow will redouble efforts to recover its influence now his administration has collapsed.
The Kyiv Independent: At least 54 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been executed by Russian soldiers, the head of the War Crimes Department in Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office, Yurii Belousov, said on April 9.
Reuters: The U.S. has transferred to Ukraine thousands of infantry weapons and more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition that were seized more than a year ago as they were being shipped by Iran to Houthi forces in Yemen.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian troops in Ukraine continue to obtain Starlink terminals through shadowy supply chains and intermediaries, while SpaceX has not shut these devices off, the Wall Street Journal reported on April 9.
The Moscow Times: Russia has issued an arrest warrant for a former Norwegian politician who currently serves as a medic in the Ukrainian military, the state-run news agency TASS reported Tuesday, citing law enforcement agencies.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia's claims about alleged Ukrainian drone attacks against the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant are manipulation and propaganda, Ukraine's nuclear energy agency Energoatom said on April 9.
POLITICO: Six countries bordering the North Sea signed an agreement on Tuesday to protect critical underwater infrastructure from foreign sabotage and attacks. The agreement — signed by Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom and Denmark — aims to "strengthen cooperation" to protect energy infrastructure and increase security in the region.
AP News: Russian space officials on Tuesday aborted the test launch of a new heavy-lift rocket from its far-eastern launch pad.
Reuters: Ukraine's military spy agency struck a main production facility of a Russian aviation factory in Russia's Voronezh region, a Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters.
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